A person was spotted allegedly firing a weapon at federal agents during a chaotic clash between protesters and agents following a raid near Camarillo.
  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Idiots.

    258,000,000.

    Disease, famine, and political violence.

    Hitler did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it.

    American settlers did it. The British did it to a lot of their colonies.

    Don’t fucking give them a reason. Anger clouds our minds and forces us to make bad decisions.

    Want to make an impact that doesn’t get people killed? I’ll fucking spell it out since people are apparently too stupid to figure it out.

    Get a 6 channel receiver drone. Big enough that it can carry a sandwich bag of thermite (take an angle grinder to a rusted iron rod and an aluminum nod), ignite some magnesium strips or short the massive batter on the drone to ark across the powder. Land the drone in the center hood on one of the myriad of vehicles and let it disable the machine.

    Destroy their tools or hit their infrastructure.

    Value human lives more than property. That is what the rich fear.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      Such a stupid belief to have. Hitler famously staged all sorts of violent false flag events to gain political power. If you dont fight back with violence, they will just make it look like you did and then you are just worse off than you would have been if you actually fought back with violence. There is no saving the US peacefully anymore.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      i respect this but you can’t call people ifiots for not figuring out how to make a chemically sophisticated and technologically driven attack vector. maybe try paint for a regular person

    • Saleh@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Hitler did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it.

      Ahh yes. They famously backed down when their victims protested peacefully…

      Except they didn’t and in Nazi Germany the lack of violent resistance enabled the Nazis to consolidate power and subsequently escalate to genocide.

  • Jean-luc Peak-hard@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Now imagine if everyone was armed to the teeth and showed up to protest peacefully. I feel like that’s what it would take to make kidnappers think twice about fucking around.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      In many states, it is illegal to bring weapons of any kind to a protest or demonstration, often whether said event has permits or not.

      • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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        2 days ago

        I’m not aware of any law in Minnesota that makes this illegal but most of the protests here start, end or are entirely on state/federal government property where it is illegal to carry.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
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          2 days ago

          Might well be true. Of note, where there is such a law, they’ll generally be referring to any weapons, and not only firearms.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
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          2 days ago

          Bring sporting equipment. Golf, hockey, baseball - all very popular athletic pursuits.

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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            2 days ago

            The J6 Insurrectionists have insisted that the J6 Traitors were unarmed, and the bats, cattle prods, chains, spears, flagpoles, etc. weren’t weapons, so that made J6 a “peaceful” demonstration.

            Perhaps we should give them a taste of their version of a peaceful demonstration.